Bombs away: Researcher combats invasive plants by deploying insect armies

Credit: (WVU Photo/Mick Posey)

“Bug bombs,” or pods, are filled with natural enemy insects — such as weevils — and dropped on invasive plants using drone technology in a project led by WVU researcher Yong-Lak Park.

« Bombs away: Researcher combats invasive plants by deploying insect armies

Credit: (WVU Photo/Mick Posey)

Yong-Lak Park, professor of entomology at the WVU Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, stops for a photograph among the collection of drones used in his current research on fighting invasive plant species.

« Bombs away: Researcher combats invasive plants by deploying insect armies

Credit: (WVU Photo)

Yong-Lak Park, professor, entomology, WVU Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design

« Bombs away: Researcher combats invasive plants by deploying insect armies

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